I once had a conversation with a older Woman on this very subject. I'm 47 and she was about 55/56 or so. We were talking about MLC and how about 1/2 of us go thorough it (men and woman). I kind of have the feeling she went through it even if she didn't say so. To much knowledge not to have some experience with this. She was divorced and seemed relatively resigned and content to her situation in life.
She told me she thinks Men have less tolerance and patients to wait out what their spouse was going through. In other words, she said Men don't have the ability to 'stand' for a significant period of time as Woman do. I got the feeling she was disappointed her ex didn't wait for her to go through it.
I think she described me in some ways.
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain
